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Eugene Onegin – Fourth Production Rehearsal
Well! The marketing of the Opera is in full swing, I’ve been handing out fliers and putting up posters and getting it listed on referral sites like Bachtrack, and the Halls team have been putting up interviews on Youtube with Harry & Nick so if you still need convincing you should be inviting ALL your friends to come…
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Eugene Onegin – third production rehearsal – arrival of the principals!
A swelteringly hot Sunday and I’m very glad that the rehearsal has been moved to the morning, and to Brooklands school, where the doors of the hall are flung wide onto a very pleasant square shaded by a vast tree – Thank you Brooklands! The Principals have arrived, and so has the poster. We’ve worked with Nick…
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Rats in the Shadows
Our second night out in a row. I recall saying about a month ago that we would have no social life while rehearsing Onegin, it has turned out not to be true – tired, yes; frantically busy, yes; but going all sorts of places. This is where being part of the community opera pays off,…
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Eugene Onegin 2nd Production Rehearsal
So we are upstairs and don’t have enough doors for our entrances and exits, and have to crunch against walls and pretend we aren’t there. It’s hot and it’s raining, and there isn’t enough light for photographs; good job I took loads last time. This is one of those rehearsals where there is a lot…
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Eugene Onegin – 1st Production Rehearsal
Our first production rehearsal is six hours long. Nick is stuck on a delayed Eurostar, so Duncan is conducting from the piano, Bryony is poised with measuring tape to review costumes, Tom has collected flower pots, (which he later walks into and sends in all directions) baskets, cushions and a watering can, and the floor is marked…
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The Future for the Onegin Posts
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Eugene Onegin – 6th Rehearsal
This is the final ‘Music’ rehearsal, and Nick is trying to get us off ‘the book’. Some of us require weaning, others are trying to go cold turkey. The waltz scene from Act II worked pretty well without the words ‘n’ music in front of us, although the words on some of the more exposed sections…
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Eugene Onegin- 4th rehearsal
In order to help me write this blog I scrawl things in the margin of my score, then erase them when I’ve updated the post. This week’s scrawls say: Marvellous Nearly marvellous Will be marvellous. This being either Nick or my assessment of where we’re at. I write things down because my memory is unreliable…
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Eugene Onegin- 3rd Rehearsal
Sunday Morning: Nick is back and tests us on what we’ve learnt with Duncan. “What would you give yourselves as marks out of ten?” he asks. “Four,” “Two!” we compete to be self effacing in our judgement. “Well, I’d say it was a six, so let’s see if we can get to nine and a…
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Eugene Onegin- 2nd rehearsal
Thursday evening, and I should be at my writing group but here we are at Blackheath again, clutching our carefully marked up scripts. Jonathon is also clutching an article about charity shops, which we hope will help with finding our costumes. It’s half term and we feel a bit thin on the ground, indeed Music…
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